Lightspeed Venture Partners
Overview
Lightspeed Venture Partners serves bold builders of the future, acting as the first investor and early backer to innovative companies from Seed to Series F.
Classification
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, California
- Geographic focus
- global
- Stage
- Seed to Series F
- Fund status
- active
- Portfolio
- 3 companies
Fund details
- Fund size
- $10B (approximate AUM)
- AUM
- $9B
- Vintage
- 2025
- Founded
- 2004
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Thesis & focus
deep technical depth and expertise; high-conviction support from Seed to Series F
Anthropic (partnership focus)
Seed to Series F
Centered on depth and serving bold builders of the future; emphasizes taking a different approach than typical VCs by avoiding shallow understanding in favor of true expertise.
Investment thesis
Deep focus on AI and bold founders with big ideas, acting as the first call and first investor for over a decade. They prioritize depth of expertise over surface-level engagement, standing behind companies with high conviction.
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